Sen. Bernie Sanders has range. He is a senator, the most well-known, self-avowed socialist in America, and an amateur erotica author.
Sanders addressed his controversial 1972 essay on rape fantasies on Sunday’s Meet the Press. He continued to say that the piece was not relevant and to call it “satire.”
“Sure. Look, this is a piece of fiction that I wrote in 1972, I think. That was 43 years ago. It was very poorly written,” Sanders said to host Chuck Todd. “And if you read it, what it was dealing with was gender stereotypes. Why some men like to oppress women. Why other women like to be submissive, something like 50 Shades Of Grey. Very poorly written, 43 years ago. What I am focusing on right now are the issues impacting the American people today.”
In the original piece, Sanders described a man’s “typical fantasy” as “a woman tied up, a woman abused.” He also claimed that a woman “fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously.”
